Nokia sends National Geographic photog into the American West with a Lumia 1020

Stephen Alvarez used a Lumia 1020 to take photos from Utah to Arizona.

Sometimes, a PR stunt can be pretty cool. Nokia sent National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez into the American West to take photos with its latest flagship phone, the Lumia 1020. With a 41MP camera outputting maximum file sizes of 34MP to 38MP (depending on aspect ratio), the Lumia 1020 captured canyons in grand style.

Check out more of Alvarez's shots below and click on the photos to open them in their massive full-resolution.

Very nice work (I don't care if the camera is on a phone, it's still a camera), but if one more landscape photographer posts a pic of Horseshoe Bend I'm gonna scream. It seems to be the Eiffel Tower for landscape photographers...

These are great photos regardless of what was used to capture them.Its always amusing and sad to see the "experts" come out with their 2 cents to find reason to complain or compare as if they have some need to feel superior.Enjoy life. Be happy.

Except that this is ABOUT the camera, you're confusing travel photos of a friend with what are literally supposed to be image samples of the best it can do.

Superior ? Seriously ? Who's the one telling everybody else how sad they are for judging a camera on a frekking camera judging website.

When i'm done judging what i want or need OBJECTIVELY, as i believe equipment does not have feelings, then sure i'll enjoy life, hell i'm enjoying it now, but you feel free to browse some more of these instagrams.

They ARE great photos.... at the 3X5" resolution they're shown in this article. If I wanted to actually print one of those photos at a reasonably size for display - life would not be happy. At all.

If that's all you want then yes, snap away with your iphone or whatever and be happy; I've gotten some surprisingly good photos with my Nexus 4. But if vacation snaps were all I wanted I'd not bother spending time at a website like DPR....

They should have also sent another guy off on the tour with a Nokia 808 PureView, which, using the awesome symbian app Camera Pro, would have been able to produce full res 41.48 megapixel jpeg output at jpeg q100%!

Seriously, this was maybe newsworthy at the beginning of the smartphone era a few years ago. But today? Almost everyone understands that smart phones have real camera credentials. We get it. Is this news worthy any longer?